Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• Poetry: 'Waiting to Grow' Anonymous, 81; 'The Babes in the Wood' from Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 84-86; 'The Skipper and His Boy' by English poet Hamilton Aide (q.v.), 89-90; 'The Giant' by Charles Mackay (q.v.) (1814-89), 94.
• Fiction: 'Brownie and the Cook' (to be continued), from The Adventures of a Brownie by Dinah Maria Mulock (q.v.), 90-92; 'Mother's Help' by F. E. B. in The Children's Paper, 92-94.
• Moral Instruction: 'The Old Man and His Ass' Aesop (q.v.), with illus., 94-95.
• Natural History: 'The Story of a Butterfly' adapted from The Magazine for the Young, with illus., 81-84.
• Puzzles: 'Simple Experiments, Puzzles, Etc' by S.S., with illus., 95.
• Music: 'Away With Melancholy' by Mozart (q.v.), 96.
• Notices: 'Notice' (unattributed), 96.